The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-08-25
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own the steamship Great Eastern if |
paid 800, 600 to take it.
1t is said that strawberry is the
old English 'streow-berie," OF stray
referring to the straying
habits of the runners of the plant.
Count di Marifori, son of King Vic
tor Emmanuel is one of the greatest
of Italy. His vineyards
at Lucca cover nearly 1900 acres.
The horse Gen. Sherman rode on his
march to the sea has been sold in Mad
ison County, Ohio. for $3.50 and was
dear as relic at that price.
Mr.. w. ID. Howells is openly accused
by the Boston Trdgeller of using the
opportunities afforded by his position
as q magazine critic TO advertise HIM
self and his literary wares.
Gen. Imboden of Confederate cav
airy fame recently stated in letter
that if Virginia's mineral wealth had
been as fully developed in 1860 as now
there would have been no war.
Jacob Seligman of Michigan is a
millionaire, and director of nine banks
and four railroads. He is less than
five feet high and went to Michigan
twenty-five years ago with less than
500 in his pocket.
The Philadelphia Inquirer judicious-
ly observes that if the people of Amer
lea would find half as much fault with
their representatives in congress as
they do with their baseball clubs the
country would be much better gov
erned.
A white crystal, nearly ten inches in
diameter, spherical in form and said
to be without a flaw, has lately been
offered to the principal foreign curio
firm of Yokohama for $40, 900. The
mikado has one of the two finest ones
known.
Minister Hubbard writes to the State
Department that the English are re-
covering their lost ground in Japan,
and before long may be" expected to
take the reins from the Germans, who
have had everything for some years
back.
One of the most daring equestrians
of milford, N. Y, is Miss Alice Deck
er. who rides a vicious horse without
| saddle or bride, guiding him by her
riding whip only She sends him over
| bitches and fences with no more cere-
| mony than if she was in rocking
| chair.
Elijah Youngblood of Coffee County,
Georgia. is justly proud OF his record
las huntsman. He has killed 996
| deer and 240 wildcats. He is 81 years
old, can walk all day in the woods.
and can run mile to herd deer or a
wildcat when his trusty dog gives
/ tongue.
| The venerable Duchess of Cam
bridge has fourteen years been almost
constantly suffering from an incura-
BILE and intensely painful malady, but
lis seldom heard to complain. Her sc
wears have not impaired the yigor OF
/ mind or the retentive power OF her
memory.
| M. Leo Taxil, once notorious as a
rather scurrilous writer against the
Roman Catholic Church, has repented
been pardoned, and had an interview
| with the Pope, during which he shed
tears copiously at the affectionate treat
ment bestowed upon him. His wife il
still unconverted.
A colored preacher of Fairfax coun
/ ty, Virginia, having recently declared
that II number of his flock were amena
BILE to church. discipline and that they
must be expelled. had his house o
worship burned up by the offender'
the same night. The nalcontents dit
not intend to stand any fooling.
Miss Winnaretta Singer, daughte
of the late Mr.. Sanger Of Singer SEWN:
machine notoricty, is going to wed tn
Prince de Montfellard, whose it'll
dates from the time of the Crusades
His future mother-in-law, now tin
. Duchess de Composelice, was tn,
daughter of an English confectioner.
ATombstone man from the Patagon
ian mountains, Arizona, says the fir
has laid bare large tracts of countr,
i heretofore covered with brush an,
! vegetation, and that it now present
opportunities for prospecting that hav
never before been accessible on &C
count of being covered by dense for
ests.
Octave Feui1let, author of the stRo
nance of Poor Young Man" anon:
other celebrated novels, has been in
terviewed by an American CORES
pondent and says he admires Bre
Harte, but has not read Howells. HI
recently received a request from al
autograph collector i'll Chicago wh'
asked "for few bars of music owe
his signature.
Il The grand hall staircase in the new
: Equitable Building in New York Cit,
includes specimens of the finest ant
rarest marbles of the entire world
Drafts have been made upon the his
| a,.rssa II.
mines of India and other countrie
where rare qualities of stone have beel
discovered. The grouping of thes
specimens have been no small labor
II Sam Jones recently preached fou
days in Henry County Kentucky, with
out making single convert. At tn
close of his last sermon he remarked
s.The sermon which I have jus
preached at you was the one whicl
converted Sam Small. / therefor
thought it ought to make at least on
convert here, but. / had forgotten tina
this congregation is composed of citi
zens of Henry County.
Experiments are believed to shoy
that aseptol, or orthopenot-sulphate, j
: destined to take the place of earboli
acid as disinfectant and antiseptio
1t is syrupy, brown fluid of aromati
odor, and soluble in alcohol, glycerine
and water, and is not irritating in a
! strong as 10 per cent solutions. As a
antiseptic it is said to equal carboli
acid, while possessing also the advani
age of pleasanter odor, more solubili
! ty, etc.
A New Yorker, Harold Fries, re
Gently of Columbia College, has greatl
! distinguished himself. Berlin is a nc
a toriously difficult university at whic
I to pass an examination, but Fries too
the degree of doctor of philosophy bs
!, fore board of thirty-fve professor:
] In grantir the degree the recto
: called attention to the fact that th
: university never before granted thi
degree in chemistry to SO young a
applicant.
A chicken-thief has recently bee
arrested at Xenia, Ohio, who seems t
;. be at the head of his profession. Ii
a operates with two-horse covere
!. spring wagon. and was always car,
!, full to do his stealing out of this count,
= 1t is known that his profits ran as hig
:. as 500 per week for several months